This week's Screening Room is an interview with David Gibson, in which he explores the evolution of gaming and why preserving video game history matters. https://loom.ly/nYLKFDU

The Archive That Treats Protest Buttons Like Rare Books Hundreds of pins document a century of progressive causes and cool typography.

The University of Connecticut is home to some 1,000 protest buttons, about 400 of which have been digitized. https://loom.ly/D-f-FFQ

AMIA Online Legacy equipment repair and maintenance series, addressing a range of formats.

This four-part webinar series provides an overview of basic maintenance, diagnosis, and safety considerations for a range of legacy formats. The next session focuses on VHS - join us March 5! Miss the session on CRT or Audio? Sessions are available on demand. https://loom.ly/boiKLGY

JTS 2026 - National Film and Sound Archive Join us for the full symposium experience — two days of sessions, discussions, and collaboration.

The Joint Technical Symposium is next week! A great lineup of speakers in Canberra, and virtual registration is still open. https://loom.ly/DyoTTjk

In 2018, a team of filmmakers premiered a four-episode documentary series on the 50th anniversary of Bobby Kennedy’s Presidential campaign. This week's Screening Room is a discussion of how these filmmakers explored a deep wilderness of archival media. Look for the link in your inbox.

It cites a change in its content management system as the reason for pulling the plug. https://loom.ly/SQy4AzQ

Oldest known whale song recordings discovered in Cape Cod archives The files, found on a bygone piece of audio recording equipment, may give scientists new evidence about how humans have changed the ocean.

The discovery of the lost files was born out of two coincidences, almost 80 years apart. https://loom.ly/zaN-F4U

The C2PA for G+LAM Community of Practice has released the 𝐶𝑜𝑛𝑡𝑒𝑛𝑡 𝐴𝑢𝑡ℎ𝑒𝑛𝑡𝑖𝑐𝑖𝑡𝑦 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑃𝑟𝑜𝑣𝑒𝑛𝑎𝑛𝑐𝑒 𝑖𝑛 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝐴𝑔𝑒 𝑜𝑓 𝐴𝑟𝑡𝑖𝑓𝑖𝑐𝑖𝑎𝑙 𝐼𝑛𝑡𝑒𝑙𝑙𝑖𝑔𝑒𝑛𝑐𝑒. Download the report here: https://loom.ly/-KaXo8E Community feedback is invited here: c2pa@loc.gov.

AMIA Online Legacy Equipment Repair and Maintenance Series

The Legacy Equipment Repair and Maintenance Series starts Wednesday with 1/4" Audio and Cassettes. This four-part series provides an overview of basic maintenance, diagnosis, and safety considerations for legacy equipment. https://loom.ly/boiKLGY

This week's Screening Room features a Keynote Conversation between filmmaker Allison Anders and Maya Montañez Smukler, head of the UCLA Film & Television Archive Research and Study Center. Look for the link in your inbox.

City Life Org - “Pandemic Diaries,” opens at The New York Public Library, a Collection of Oral Histories Documenting Life Under Lockdown Photo by Andy on Unsplash Collected in real time by The Library, the audio collection captures the unprecedented lived experiences of New Yorkers and others during the COVID-19 pandemic.  The New Y…

Amid the diaristic entries, which average thirty minutes in length, are spoken word poems, essays, interviews, and mentions of national and local politics and news. https://loom.ly/dSCXFfU

Titled “Inside the Vault,” the traveling and virtual display launches in conjunction with the tour and draws from the Library of Congress’ Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein II collections. https://loom.ly/COd1mgY

Legacy Equipment: 1/4 Audio & Cassette Decks The hour long session covers basic 1/4 Audio & Cassette Deck maintenance, repair, and diagnosis.

Archives continue to depend on legacy audio and video playback equipment that is no longer manufactured, increasingly difficult to service, and essential to ongoing preservation and access work. https://loom.ly/iYSq9n0

Kristen Stewart Buys Historic Movie Theater in Highland Park: 'An Antidote to All the Corporate Bulls--t' The actress and director emphasizes that the restored space will be for the community and not just for pretentious Hollywood cinephiles

The Highland Theatre, which opened in 1925 as a vaudeville venue and movie house, was designed by architect Lewis Arthur Smith, whose other credits include the Vista Theatre in Los Feliz, the El Portal Theatre in North Hollywood and the Rialto Theatre in Pasadena. https://loom.ly/gwhEFic

A look back a decade: this week’s Screening Room revisits 2015 and looks at Designing and Building the Post-Analogue Audiovisual Archive. Keep an eye out for the link in your inbox.

The 50 Most Underappreciated Movies of the 21st Century From 'Idlewild' and 'Bright Star' to 'The Magic Flute' and more, these are TIME's most underappreciated movies of the 21st Century

Looking back at a list of films released since 2000, that may now deserve a second look—or first-time discovery. https://loom.ly/TyvRKFU

The Film Students Who Can No Longer Sit Through Films The attention-span crisis goes to the movies.

“I used to think, If homework is watching a movie, that is the best homework ever,” Craig Erpelding, a film professor at the University of Wisconsin at Madison, told me. “But students will not do it.” https://loom.ly/YIYdKEI

Barbara Kopple’s ‘American Dream,’ On Historic Strike At Hormel Foods That “Ripped Apart” Austin, Minn., Gets 4k Restoration, Theatrical Release Barbara Kopple's Oscar-winning documentary 'American Dream' is getting a 4K restoration and theatrical release.

Very few documentary filmmakers have won two Academy Awards during their career. Among that rare group is Barbara Kopple, who has supervised and approved a new 4K restoration of American Dream. https://loom.ly/Y0yVfro

Nontheatrical Student Essay Award Designed to recognize outstanding graduate student scholarship founded upon archival nontheatrical research, this award underscores both organizations’ commitment to mentorship and professional development, connecting award-recipients with mentors to guide them through the process of crafting journal-ready manuscripts. The award-winning essay will also be published (subject to revisions) in The Moving Image.

The Nontheatrical Student Essay Award is a collaboration between the SCMS Nontheatrical Film and Media SIG and AMIA. The submission deadline has been extended to March 15! https://loom.ly/mHUZlzk

The notion of preserving for the future such a low form of entertainment as film (‘an amusement fit for children and half-wits’) was once dismissed as pointless and unrealistic. This week's Screening Room examines at the beginnings of the archive movement. Look for the link in your inbox.

The 25 films selected this year for the National Film Registry by @librarycongress date back to the silent film through 2014, all chosen for their cultural, historic or aesthetic importance to preserve the nation’s film heritage. See the full list here: https://loom.ly/El3-q8U

Scientists let AI loose on Hubble’s archives It found 800 previously undiscovered ‘cosmic anomalies.’

The model used by the astronomers, dubbed AnomalyMatch, scanned nearly 100 million image cutouts from the Hubble Legacy Archive, the first time the dataset has been systematically searched for anomalies. https://loom.ly/Jt-ZdN0

"Roughly, we wanted to follow a timeline from its beginning to when the internet arrived, and it sort of lost its place in the world. But along the way, there were gazillions of amazing shows. So, did it have an archive that was preserved and available to us?" https://loom.ly/NuCuAkU

At the upcoming IIIF online event: The on-going work in the cultural heritage community to incorporate digital object verification has been addressed by working groups such as the Digital Object Authenticity Working Group (DOAWG) and the Trust in Archives Initiative (TAI).
https://loom.ly/U298gEY

1960s films restored in hope of enticing new migrants to regional Australia The National Film and Sound Archive has released 4K restorations of the 1960s film series Life in Australia, commissioned by the Department of Immigration to attract new migrants to regional Australia.

The films — commissioned by the Department of Immigration in the 1960s — screened at embassies and High Commissions, particularly in the United Kingdom, to encourage migration to Australia. https://loom.ly/3phdMa8

This week's member Screening Room is from AMIA Online - tips and tricks on color remastering home movies across various formats and codecs using DaVinci Resolve. Look for the link in your inbox.

A look back at 2007 - the first iPhone was introduced, Al Gore received a Nobel Peace Prize, Spider-Man 3 was tops at the box office, and AMIA was in Rochester for the annual conference.

Welcome - JTS 2026 - National Film and Sound Archive Check out the program and register (in person or virtual) here.

The program for JTS 2026 is now available! Since 1983, JTS has been organized to address the international scientific and technical issues facing the preservation and management of audiovisual collections. Check out the program and register (in person or virtual) here. https://loom.ly/CiQLdaw

Keeping Classics Alive: Arcade Archives Reaches 500 Titles with Space Invaders - Xbox Wire 500 games. 11 years. 1 legendary milestone. Arcade Archives reaches its 500th release with the iconic Space Invaders! Check out the exclusive interview with the team on the craft of preserving history.

One of the key features of the Arcade Archives series is its highly detailed screen settings, which are deliberately designed to recreate the feeling of staring into a dusty arcade monitor. https://loom.ly/HL7I_TM

Founding documents to visit American cities on Freedom Plane National Tour The National Archives and Records Administration announced plans for a new traveling exhibition.

Inspired by the Bicentennial Freedom Train, the tour is designed to make historic and consequential documents from America’s early history more accessible to the public, https://loom.ly/K5j_2bQ